(1)LAWS OF ANINUTH
One who suffered a bereavement for whom he is dutibound to observe mourning rites, [the law is that] before burial,...he eats not meat nor drinks wine, nor does he recite the benediction before meals, nor does he say grace after meals, nor do others recite the benediction [before meals] on his behalf, nor does he join in grace after meals. Even if he eats with others he should not repeat Amen after them [when they recite the benediction before meals]. And he is exempt from [the performance] of all religious duties enjoined in the Torah,even if he is not required to attend to the preparations needed for the dead, e.g., [when] he has others who attend to [this] for him. And some say that even if he desires to adopt for himself a stricter view, [viz.,] to recite the benediction [before meals], or to repeat Amen after those who recite the benediction [before meals], he is not permitted [to do so]. And on the Sabbath or Festival, he eats meat and drinks wine, and recites the benediction [before meals] and is dutibound to perforrm all religious duties save the use of the conjugal couch wherein he is forbidden, and he is permitted to go to the Synagogue on the Sabbath, and even on weekdays there is no prohibition, but since he is forbidden to recite the prayers [on weekdays], what will he do there?...

(2) One who suffered a bereavement on the Sabbath, may eat on the night following the Sabbath without reciting the Habdalah,²⁷ Glos. nor the evening or the morning Tefillah prior to burial; and after burial, one should recite the morning Tefillah if its prescribed time limit has not lapsed;...

(5) As long as the corpse is not buried one does not remove his shoes or sandals and is not required to [perform] the muffling of the head,⁴⁵Wrapping oneself up in mourning. nor the overturning of the couch, but one is forbidden to sit or sleep on a couch even if it is overturned.Gloss: So much the more that one is forbidden to use the conjugal couch (no sex).and some say that he is prohibited against bathing, annointing, rejoicing, greeting, haircutting and work,’but he is permitted to leave his house.

(6) The one who guards the corpse, even if it is not his own dead, is exempt from the reading of the Shema and from all religious duties enjoined in the Torah. If there were two [watchmen], one guards and the other reads.